To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very… — Victor Hugo French revolution Copy Share Image
“No one pries as effectively into other people’s business as those whose business it most definitely is not… What for? For nothing.… — Victor Hugo Business Copy Share Image
“Humanity is identity. All men are the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the… — Victor Hugo Humanity Copy Share Image
Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed… — Victor Hugo Abundance Copy Share Image
“Sir, sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who,… — Victor Hugo French revolution Copy Share Image
“This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which… — Victor Hugo Conscience Copy Share Image
There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are… — Victor Hugo Atheist Copy Share Image
“He kissed the handkerchief, inhaled its perfume, put it over his heart, against his flesh in the daytime, and at night went… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'… — Victor Hugo Bishops Copy Share Image
All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and… — Victor Hugo Affirmation Copy Share Image
“Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and sorrowful classes; to relieve, ventilate, enlighten, and love… — Victor Hugo Education Copy Share Image
“The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. This individual alone counted for more than a universal group.… — Victor Hugo Heavy burden Copy Share Image
“Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse… — Victor Hugo Eclipse Copy Share Image
“Il dort. Quoique le sort fut pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n’eut plus son ange. La choise… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“the old man raised his finger toward heaven, and said, 'The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no ME,… — Victor Hugo God Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding the fog which rose around, I perceived the walls and roofs of the houses of Soissons, with a half-moon peering from… — Victor Hugo God and nature Copy Share Image
There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even… — Victor Hugo Aspiration Copy Share Image
“And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles.… — Victor Hugo Amazing Copy Share Image
“What precipices are sloth and pleasure! To do nothing is a sorry resolve to take; are you aware of that? To live… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Let us never fear robbers or murders. Those are dangerous from without, Teddy dangerous. Let us be ourselves. Prejudices are the real… — Victor Hugo Bias Copy Share Image
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In moments like these, offering up his heart at the hour that night flowers offer up their perfume, lit up like a… — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
“He did not seek to assume the mantle of Elijah, to shed a light of the future upon the misty turmoil of… — Victor Hugo Belief Copy Share Image
“With a remainder of that brotherly compassion which is never totally absent from the heart of a drinker, Phoebus rolled Jehan with… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
“What about me?’ said Grantaire. ‘I’m here.’ ‘You?’ ‘Yes, me.’ ‘You? Rally Republicans! You? In defence of principles, fire up hearts that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive… — Victor Hugo Barricade Copy Share Image
“After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and that it all… — Victor Hugo Hatred Copy Share Image
“The saints are persecuted, eyes are closed to the truth, darkness is the daily wear. The most savage beasts are those that… — Víctor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Proceed, philosophers, teach, enlighten, enkindle, think aloud, speak aloud, run joyously towards the bright daylight, fraternise in the public squares, announce the… — Victor Hugo Bare feet Copy Share Image
“Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providing free public education;… — Victor Hugo Education Copy Share Image
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because… — Victor Hugo History Copy Share Image
At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in… — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
“In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that,… — Victor Hugo Human heart Copy Share Image
“These Oscars bore the names, one of Felix Tholomyes, of Toulouse; the second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow… — Victor Hugo Democracy Copy Share Image
“We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader in to a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
